This README guides the user through the replication of:

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"The Creation of Social Norms under Weak Institutions"
Authors: Florian Diekert, Tillmann Eymess, Joseph Luomba, and Israel Waichman

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To replicate the results, tables, and figures of the paper, the user needs to first run the 'creation_norms_analysis.do' file in Stata.
The .do file reads the provided csv file and replicates a large share of the results. Additionally, the code creates Excel and csv files that are used by the R script to replicate the rest of the results.

Hence, the R script can only successfully be run after the .do file.

Users without access to Stata can use the csv file also in other programs. A codebook is provided.

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Additional information:

- The experimental instructions (in English) are provided.

- For the purpose of the study at hand, the data is already in long format: there are seven observations for each individual participant according to the seven decision rounds in the experiment.

- The dataset only includes those variables necessary for replicating the results presented in the paper and in the Web Appendix.

- As part of the NATCOOP project, all collected data is FAIR (findable, accessible, inter-operable, and re-usable). If you are interested in the full dataset including other survey items, metadata, etc., you can access it under https://doi.org/10.11588/data/GV8NBL. 

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Correspondence: florian.diekert@awi.uni-heidelberg.de

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